linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix mismatched parentheses

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Message-ID: <bb44ee43-b08f-4a4a-bdde-dda785756680@t-8ch.de>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 20:30:14 +0200
From: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
To: Jemmy Wong <jemmywong512@...il.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix mismatched parentheses

Hi Jemmy,

good catch and thanks for your patch!
There are some small formal issues with it, though.
Could you fix those and send a v2?

The patch subject should start with "tools/nolibc: ", and could be a bit
more specific: "fix mismatched parenthesis in minor()"

(more below)

On 2025-04-10 02:19:34+0800, Jemmy Wong wrote:
> Corrects an imbalance where opening parentheses exceed closing ones.

Use imperative language: "Correct an ..."

As this is a bugfix, a Fixes tag would be great.
In this case:

Fixes: eba6d00d38e7 ("tools/nolibc/types: move makedev to types.h and make it a macro")

> Signed-off-by: Jemmy Wong <Jemmywong512@...il.com>
> 
> ---
>  tools/include/nolibc/types.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/types.h b/tools/include/nolibc/types.h
> index b26a5d0c417c..b57e054cca82 100644
> --- a/tools/include/nolibc/types.h
> +++ b/tools/include/nolibc/types.h
> @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ struct stat {
>  /* WARNING, it only deals with the 4096 first majors and 256 first minors */
>  #define makedev(major, minor) ((dev_t)((((major) & 0xfff) << 8) | ((minor) & 0xff)))
>  #define major(dev) ((unsigned int)(((dev) >> 8) & 0xfff))
> -#define minor(dev) ((unsigned int)(((dev) & 0xff))
> +#define minor(dev) ((unsigned int)(((dev) & 0xff)))
>  
>  #ifndef offsetof
>  #define offsetof(TYPE, FIELD) ((size_t) &((TYPE *)0)->FIELD)


Thomas